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By David Zinger on Nov 15, 2007 in Disengagement, Employee Engagement Chronicle | 0 Comments
Do you help employees keep the thrill alive?
Peter Vajda has written a detailed and insightful post on employee engagement at Slow Leadership. The key sections include the causes of disengagement, the solutions, and how to “keep the thrill alive.” I encourage you to read the post to learn a lot more from Peter’s insight into [...]
By David Zinger on Nov 14, 2007 in David Zinger, Employee Engagement, Employee Engagement Chronicle | 2 Comments
David Zinger’s Employee Engagement Chronicle is your primary source for current news, views, reviews, and research on employee engagement. Each entry includes a link to an article or post with a short verbatim tidbit from the article. If you are intrigued, click on the author or source name at the start of each summary to study the full [...]
By David Zinger on Nov 13, 2007 in David Zinger, Disengagement, Employee Engagement, Engagement, Personal Engagement | 2 Comments
Employee engagement is connection.
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. the sun shines not on us, but in us; the rivers flow not past, but through us. ~ John Muir
Employee engagement is:
Connection to our authentic self.
Connection to our work.
Connection to others.
By David Zinger on Nov 12, 2007 in David Zinger, Monday Morning Percolator, Strength Based Leadership | 0 Comments
Employee Engagement Monday Morning Percolator #33
This is part 3 of a 5 part series on leadership strength development embracing the application of StrengthsFinder 2.0.
Click here to read the first article in the series.
Here is the schedule outlining my strength focus:
Maximizer (Week 1)
Strategic (Week 2)
Positivity (Week 3)
Ideation (Week 4)
Empathy (Week 5)
Here is a review of the process we [...]
By David Zinger on Nov 9, 2007 in David Zinger, Employee Engagement Chronicle | 2 Comments
There has been a lot of press and information lately about the Towers Perrin Worldwide Employee Engagement Study encompassing 90,000 workers in 19 countries.
Here are some of the findings as summarized in The State:
Engagement is not satisfaction or happiness but the degree to which workers connect to the company emotionally, are aware of what they need to [...]
By David Zinger on Nov 9, 2007 in David Zinger, Zengagement | 0 Comments
Are you driving down the employee engagement road?
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren’t sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better. ~ John Carmack
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By David Zinger on Nov 8, 2007 in David Zinger, Employee Engagement, Employee Engagement Chronicle | 0 Comments
David Zinger’s Employee Engagement Chronicle is your primary source for current news, views, reviews, and research on employee engagement. Each entry includes a link to an article or post with a short verbatim tidbit from the article. If you are intrigued, I encourage you to click on the author or source name at the start of each summary [...]
By David Zinger on Nov 5, 2007 in David Zinger, Strength Based Leadership, Strengths | 0 Comments
Employee Engagement Monday Morning Percolator #32
This is part 2 of a 5 part series on leadership strength development through the application of StrengthsFinder 2.0.
Click here to read the first article in the series.
Here is the schedule outlining my strength focus:
Maximizer (Week 1)
Strategic (Week 2)
Positivity (Week 3)
Ideation (Week 4)
Empathy (Week 5)
The process of working on your [...]
By David Zinger on Nov 4, 2007 in Zengagement | 0 Comments
Many people would be surprised to realize that Chuck Norris is a student of Zen.
He wrote the book, The Secret Power Within: Zen solutions to Real Problems. Here is a short paragraph from the book on gumption and trusting your gut instinct.
The self-confidence to do these things comes from discipline and learning. As you apply these [...]
By David Zinger on Nov 3, 2007 in David Zinger, Employee Engagement, Employee Engagement Chronicle | 0 Comments
David Zinger’s Employee Engagement Chronicle is your primary source for current news, views, reviews, and research on employee engagement.
Each entry includes a link to an article or post with a short verbatim tidbit from the actual article. If you are intrigued I encourage you to click on the author or souce name at the start of each summary to [...]
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT enriches everyone in the workplace. It is not sucking out more discretionary effort from employees.
Authentic employee engagement must function for the benefit of all: employees, leaders, organizations, and customers.
Employees have higher levels of satisfaction and contribution. Leaders are connected with employees and engaged themselves. The organization is functioning the way it should and customers are receiving the service they deserve.
Ultimately everyone is getting results that matter to them.
When this occurs, employee engagement transforms into a more powerful force --- workplace engagement.
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